Re:Reflections on the color of my skin
by h0l0cube on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:01AM
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> There are ways to help African Americans,
I think any practical suggestions would be welcome. If this isn't simply rhetoric, then why hold back?
> but presenting an endless narrative of victimhood is not it.
There are a number of ways you can slice the data to support either narrative of victimhood or oppression, but referring back to the OP - it's worth a read - Neil's anecdotal experience and that of his contemporaries are sobering. Where I live I've not once been pulled over randomly, not even with such tenuous justifications.
> 49% of Black children live in single-mother households
I think any practical suggestions would be welcome. If this isn't simply rhetoric, then why hold back?
> but presenting an endless narrative of victimhood is not it.
There are a number of ways you can slice the data to support either narrative of victimhood or oppression, but referring back to the OP - it's worth a read - Neil's anecdotal experience and that of his contemporaries are sobering. Where I live I've not once been pulled over randomly, not even with such tenuous justifications.
> 49% of Black children live in single-mother households
Curious about this statistic. What's your source?